Anyone who thinks the news business is dead should look at the wire services. Privately owned Bloomberg is adding 950 staff, 100 of them journalists, an almost 10 per cent expansion. News Corp is cutting jobs at the Wall Street Journal, but adding them at Dow Jones news wires. Nor is this hiring spree mere bravura. While newspaper groups such as the New York Times and Independent News and Media are having to fight for survival, the wires are buzzing. London-listed shares of information group Thomson Reuters, for example, are at the same level as last May, when the merger of Reuters and Thomson closed. Since then, the FTSE has dropped 35 per cent.
那些认为新闻业务已衰亡的人们应该去看一看通讯社。私人持股的彭博(Bloomberg)将增聘950名员工，其中有100名记者，扩张幅度接近10%。新闻集团(News Corp)正在裁减《华尔街日报》(Wall Street Journal)的职位，但却在道琼斯(Dow Jones)通讯社增聘人手。这种招聘热潮并非仅仅是炫耀勇气。尽管《纽约时报》(New York Times)和Independent News and Media等报纸集团目前不得不为生存而挣扎，但通讯社却蓬勃发展。例如，在伦敦上市的信息集团汤姆森路透(Thomson Reuters)目前的股价与去年5月份的水平相当，当时路透与汤姆森的合并交易刚刚完成。自那以后，富时指数(FTSE)已累计下跌35%。